tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post3721726083299036520..comments2017-04-13T04:47:21.148-06:00Comments on Pro Libertate: The Bush Regime's Revolution in Legal AffairsWilliam N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-14182327748687886572008-04-11T15:07:00.000-06:002008-04-11T15:07:00.000-06:00Source:opednews.comYoo Disbarment SoughtYoo, curre...Source:opednews.com<BR/><BR/>Yoo Disbarment Sought<BR/>Yoo, currently on the law faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, is guilty of "complicity in establishing the policy that led to the torture of prisoners," said Guild President Marjorie Cohn, who condemns Yoo as a war criminal. The Guild, the nation's biggest public interest bar organization, is also demanding that the law school, known as Boalt Hall, fire Yoo, and that Congress repeal a law that purports to give him and others immunity from prosecution.das homelandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-56959147491655534082008-04-08T23:07:00.000-06:002008-04-08T23:07:00.000-06:00Amazing that Yoo is unaware of that portion of the...Amazing that Yoo is unaware of that portion of the Declaration of Independence which acknowledges that all men are created equal.Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00659553496998268556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-10606559787790846982008-04-08T22:42:00.000-06:002008-04-08T22:42:00.000-06:00What I am about to say, I say without offering pro...What I am about to say, I say without offering proof and will not get into a discussion of. Take it or leave it. <BR/><BR/>The American people have no inkling of the utter depravity and infinite evil of this Administration and certain of its servant agencies. Longtime friends of Dick Cheney have said they do not know him any more - either he has been possessed by some dark entity, or been mentally unbalanced by guilt at the evil of his own deeds. <BR/><BR/>The truth is that 9-11, which has been used as the justification for the murder of a million Iraqis, the looting of trillions from the public treasury, the destruction of the world's oldest civilization, and the trashing of the American Republic, was well known to this administration in advance. The date, the targets, and the methods were all known, not only in this administration but also in certain circles in Israel. The general outlines of the attack were known in advance to several governments - Germany, France, Russia, Britain, as well as Arab countries, all of whom passed their knowledge on to this government. Given their desire to continue to suck at the tit of the US taxpayer, none of them has breathed a word about it ever since.<BR/><BR/>Cheney, Wolfowitz and Tenet certainly knew. Rumsfeld probably knew. Ashcroft, Rice and Powell probably did not. Whether they told Bush is uncertain - they might have doubted that they could trust him not to misspeak and let the cat out of the bag. It does not matter - Bush is evil enough in his own right.<BR/><BR/>All the conspiracy theories about thermite bombs, plasma rays, lakes of molten steel, Russian missiles and remote-controlled planes, are all spam and bullshit put out by the government itself, specifically the CIA and its servants, to draw the public attention away from this question: Who Knew?<BR/><BR/>Why do you suppose Tenet was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bush? What did he do to deserve it? Well, I cannot tell you the specifics here on this blog, but what was done by the CIA to facilitate the cover-up of 9-11, and to foment a war with Iraq, was illegal in the extreme. Suffice it to say that Tenet was a willing servant of the Dark Side, and received his due reward therefor.<BR/><BR/>Let me offer one item for your consideration, dear reader, which may lead you to ponder whether indeed our government could calmly contemplate the deaths of 3,000 of us for political ends. (We the people were in fact extremely fortunate on 9-11; fifty thousand people worked in the WTC complex, and that less than three thousand died, as staggering as that number is to contemplate, is a miracle.) The item I have to offer you is called: "Operation Northwoods." This is in the public domain and may be readily investigated. Since it was never implemented, the CIA and the Pentagon have openly admitted to the "provisional" plans for this operation, which was fully intended to be carried out. <BR/><BR/>John F. Kennedy squashed the operation and prevented the CIA from murdering hundreds of Americans (not a bunch of foreign terrorists - this would have been Americans killing Americans.) This was only one of the several crimes of JFK for which he was himself murdered by the CIA, with the knowledge of the FBI and the upper levels of certain other agencies.<BR/><BR/>Readers, ask yourselves a simple series of questions: How does one get away with a crime? One keeps it a secret. What agency or agencies in this country operate under a cloak of absolute secrecy? The CIA and FBI. What agency's or agencies' employees are watched and spied upon 24/7, and whose employees are prohibited from speaking about agency business with any member of the public, the media, and MOST especially, the Congress and its civilian employees? What agency's or agencies' budget and where and how it is spent is secret? What agency's number of employees, who they are and where their offices are, is secret? Secret from EVERYBODY, including Congress? Answer: The CIA, and the FBI.<BR/><BR/>These two agencies can operate with impunity as global criminal syndicates, able to do as they please to any person or government or entity in America or in the world, and get away with their crimes without them even being investigated. <BR/><BR/>And there is more.<BR/><BR/>The same situation obtains in almost every other country on the planet, and while governments and their constituents may think other countries are their rivals or even enemies, the intelligence agencies of all countries co-operate with each other through all of it, as a brotherhood or congress of secret criminal organizations, beyond the reach of any law or government oversight. <BR/><BR/>And all for the best of motives, they tell themselves. The end always, always justifies the means. Torture is all for the best of reasons. It is saving America from its enemies, such as JFK, RFK, and MLK. I would take a bet that John Yoo sleeps well at night. Nobody in the world is safe from the righteousness of these people. <BR/><BR/>Go ahead and laugh. Remember - he who laughs last, laughs best.<BR/><BR/>Some day, this will all become public knowledge. Some day, some person with the proof in his hands of these things, like the man who defied the tanks in Tienanmen Square, will decide his life is worth placing on the line, in order to defy evil, and the publics of many countries will recoil in horror at the immensity of the hidden evil that has ruled the world for several generations now.<BR/><BR/>Even withdrawal and refusal to cooperate or join in the celebration of servitude we call a nation, which may have worked for Gandhi, is not an option for us. Witness many examples, starting with Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce who were hounded mercilessly across the American West, and ending with the Branch Davidians in Waco. Neither asked anything but to be left alone, but that is a threat to the power of the State, which would vanish like the morning mist were it not for its millions of enslaved subjects.<BR/><BR/>Truly, as the world remembers the names of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, our descendants will long remember with horrified fascination the name of George "Torquemada" Bush.Lemuel Gullivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-4805007216600111912008-04-08T12:55:00.000-06:002008-04-08T12:55:00.000-06:00P.S.The regime ain't gonna care he's Korean.P.S.<BR/>The regime ain't gonna care he's Korean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-43306704699564850042008-04-08T12:40:00.000-06:002008-04-08T12:40:00.000-06:00Look on the bright side...If there is ever a "war"...Look on the bright side...<BR/>If there is ever a "war" with China this little Yoo guy and his children are gonna wind up in box with their privates crushed.<BR/>I wonder if that possibility has ever crossed his mind?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-86710494762155782482008-04-08T10:49:00.000-06:002008-04-08T10:49:00.000-06:00"...and is now married to Elsa Arnett, the daughte..."...and is now married to Elsa Arnett, the daughter of reporter Peter Arnett."<BR/><BR/>You've got to be kidding. Arnett was one who would repeatedly report against what the US Gubmint was babbling and saber rattling about. This must make for interesting dinner conversation at Peters house. Or, in my own twisted thinking, they yuk it up and laugh at how they've played both sides against the middle.MOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13996714804361467430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-19731503064306326782008-04-08T09:34:00.000-06:002008-04-08T09:34:00.000-06:00Below is what I wrote on the Antiwar.com blog in r...Below is what I wrote on the Antiwar.com blog in response to Prof. John Choon Yoo's below article, but for whatever reason my below comments have not shown up on said blog.<BR/><BR/>John Yoo, "The Democrats' Super Disaster," Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2008, pg. A15 <A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120631654451858227.html" REL="nofollow">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120631654451858227.html</A><BR/><BR/>##########<BR/><BR/>Interesting that the Wall Street Journal gladly gives editorial space to an utterly depraved maniac, and promoter of the most warped, brutal and bloody of sexual child-abuse, like Prof. John Choon Yoo. In even a half-way just world, Prof. Yoo would instead be appearing in the pages of the Wall Street Journal for having been publicly shamed, ostracized, and effectively run out of town due to people not wanting to even talk to such a, literally, serial-killer mindset. (Oh, excuse me, in a half-way just world, the Wall Street Journal wouldn't even exist, as real journalism would exist within the major media instead.)<BR/><BR/>But in this world of ours, having a bona fide serial-killer mindset is the greatest of assets, so long as one is smart about it and goes to work for government, rather than merely conducting one's proclivities in private.<BR/><BR/>John Choon Yoo ( <A HREF="http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/" REL="nofollow">http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/yooj/</A> , <A HREF="http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=235" REL="nofollow">http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=235</A> ) is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, and is one of the main White House legal advisers on the use of torture to President George Bush, Jr. Prof. John Yoo emigrated from South Korea with his parents when he was an infant, and is now married to Elsa Arnett, the daughter of reporter Peter Arnett.<BR/><BR/>Douglass Cassel ( <A HREF="http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/faculty/facultypages/cassel.html" REL="nofollow">http://www.nd.edu/~ndlaw/faculty/facultypages/cassel.html</A> ) is the Lilly Endowment Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.<BR/><BR/>The below excerpt is from a debate between Prof. John Yoo and Prof. Doug Cassel on December 1, 2005 in Chicago:<BR/><BR/>""<BR/>Prof. Doug Cassel: If the President deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?<BR/><BR/>Prof. John Yoo: No treaty.<BR/><BR/>Prof. Cassel: And also no law by Congress. That's what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.<BR/><BR/>Prof. Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.<BR/>""<BR/><BR/>You can listen to the above exchange on the following audio clip: <A HREF="http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/download1.php?file=yoo_on_torture.mp3" REL="nofollow">http://rwor.org/downloads/file_info/download1.php?file=yoo_on_torture.mp3</A> (317,712 bytes)<BR/><BR/>The following audio clip is a longer recording which includes the above exchange: <A HREF="http://rwor.org/audio/yoo%20excerpt.mp3" REL="nofollow">http://rwor.org/audio/yoo%20excerpt.mp3</A><BR/><BR/>See also:<BR/><BR/>"John Yoo Argues Pres. George Bush Has Legal Power to Torture Children," Philip Watts, Revolution Newspaper (revcom.us) <A HREF="http://rwor.org/johnyoo/index.html" REL="nofollow">http://rwor.org/johnyoo/index.html</A><BR/><BR/>----------<BR/><BR/>Related to the above, in the below post by me I provide massive amounts of documentation wherein the U.S. government itself admits it is holding innocent people indefinitely without charges (including children and U.S. citizens), torturing them, raping them--including homosexually anally raping them--and murdering them, and that the orders to do so came from the highest levels of the U.S. government:<BR/><BR/>"Crushing Children's Testicles: Welcome to the New Freedom," TetrahedronOmega, August 12, 2006 <A HREF="http://www.armleg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59&mforum=libertyandtruth" REL="nofollow">http://www.armleg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=59&mforum=libertyandtruth</A><BR/><BR/>----------<BR/><BR/>Also concerning the above hellish misanthropy of governments, more than six times the amount of noncombatants have been systematically murdered for purely ideological reasons by their own governments within the past century than were killed in that same time-span from wars. From 1900 to 1923, various Turkish regimes murdered from 3.5 million to over 4.3 million of its own Armenians, Greeks, Nestorians, and other Christians. The Soviet government murdered over 61 million of its own noncombatant subjects. The communist Chinese government murdered over 76 million of it own subjects. And Germany murdered some 16 million of it own subjects in the past century. And that's only a sampling of governments mass-murdering their own noncombatant subjects within the past century. (The preceding figures are from Prof. Rudolph Joseph Rummel's website at <A HREF="http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/" REL="nofollow">http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/</A> .)<BR/><BR/>All totaled, neither the private-sector crime which government is largely responsible for promoting and causing or even the wars committed by governments upon the subjects of other governments come anywhere close to the crimes government is directly responsible for committing against its own citizens--certainly not in amount of numbers. Without a doubt, the most dangerous presence to ever exist throughout history has always been the people's very own government. (This is also historically true for the U.S. govermment, as no group has killed more U.S. citizens than the U.S. government. Viz, the Civil War; etc.)<BR/><BR/>Not only were all of these government mass-slaughters conspiracies--massive conspiracies, at that--but they were conspiracies of which the 9/11 attacks are quite piddling by comparison.James Redfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284915453745539533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-82391775663039883792008-04-08T07:45:00.000-06:002008-04-08T07:45:00.000-06:00I often read Mr. Grigg's column and am most apprec...I often read Mr. Grigg's column and am most appreciative. I don't see how a comment other than "Thank God", "Right on", or "Truth reigns supreme" can add to his wonderful words. I am at a loss for words that can add any substance. That does't mean I don't care or don't share the information with people. Liberty is in the air thanks to people like Mr. Grigg, Mr. Greenwald and Mr. Rockwell and Ron Paul and those who share this information. <BR/><BR/>My point is that many people care, even if they don't leave comments. We must share this info and stick together because when the "bad stuff" happens, it will be those who cherish liberty that must strive together. "acta non verba"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-43102833085268680312008-04-08T07:16:00.000-06:002008-04-08T07:16:00.000-06:00Only nine comments to this incisive essay, now lin...Only nine comments to this incisive essay, now linked by Lew Rockwell? Goes to show why I increasingly feel that it's not worth fighting for liberty in a culture that no longer cares about it. <BR/><BR/>"Sauve qui peut."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-18864348404403323282008-04-06T14:51:00.000-06:002008-04-06T14:51:00.000-06:00Glenn Greenwald levels a devastating blast in "The...Glenn Greenwald levels a devastating blast in "The U.S. Establishment Media in a nutshell":<BR/><BR/>------------<BR/><BR/>In the past two weeks, the following events transpired. A Department of Justice memo, authored by John Yoo, was released which authorized torture and presidential lawbreaking. It was revealed that the Bush administration declared the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights to be inapplicable to "domestic military operations" within the U.S. The U.S. Attorney General appears to have fabricated a key event leading to the 9/11 attacks and made patently false statements about surveillance laws and related lawsuits. Barack Obama went bowling in Pennsylvania and had a low score.<BR/><BR/>Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:<BR/><BR/>"Yoo and torture" - 102<BR/>"Mukasey and 9/11" -- 73<BR/>"Yoo and Fourth Amendment" -- 16<BR/>"Obama and bowling" -- 1,043<BR/>"Obama and Wright" -- More than 3,000 (too many to be counted)<BR/>"Obama and patriotism" - 1,607<BR/>"Clinton and Lewinsky" -- 1,079<BR/><BR/>Obama's bowling has provided almost a full week of programming on MSNBC. Gail Collins, in The New York Times, today observed that Obama went bowling "with disastrous consequences."<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/5ocoo7<BR/><BR/>------------<BR/><BR/>Presumably this column by Will Grigg is not included in the 102 "media" stories about "Yoo and torture."<BR/><BR/>Compared to Pro Libertate, the MSM consists of 10,000 monkeys pecking away on keyboards night and day, and failing to produce a single line of Shakespeare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-40114573881650302572008-04-06T13:23:00.000-06:002008-04-06T13:23:00.000-06:00The Enabling Act (Gesetz zur Erhebung der Not von ...The Enabling Act (Gesetz zur Erhebung der Not von Volk und Reich) was the law that made the SS state possible. Passed on March 24, 1933 it translates to the law to remove the distress of people and state. What a slap in the face of our grandfathers to become what we fought against.TJ Kongnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-83307341560607432262008-04-06T05:51:00.000-06:002008-04-06T05:51:00.000-06:00The ACLU disappoints me in its obsession with issu...The ACLU disappoints me in its obsession with issues such as church-state separation and gay rights. However one may feel about these particular issues, it's hard to claim that they are top civil liberties priorities in a nation which is at war with terror abroad and drugs at home.<BR/><BR/>That said, I do think the ACLU's underfunded vestigial interest in opposing and exposing secret government is mostly nonpartisan, despite its perception as a lefty organization. (I served on a state ACLU board, years ago.) Hell, I wish the ACLU would combine forces with Gun Owners of America and defend the Second Amendment for a change.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-6495308446106931902008-04-06T04:18:00.000-06:002008-04-06T04:18:00.000-06:00Will, when are you going to beard this slunth? (V...Will, when are you going to beard this slunth? (Viz. previous entrant.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-10051210726667802008-04-05T20:20:00.000-06:002008-04-05T20:20:00.000-06:00It's not really a surprise that Mr. Yoo now works ...It's not really a surprise that Mr. Yoo now works at Berkeley Law School.<BR/><BR/>To me, it's just further evidence that there really exists merely factions of totalitarians colluding instead of a group or party of libertarians/constitutionalists working in opposition to a cabal of totalitarians. It's really amazing to me that this (now transparent) myth of opposing philosophical and political forces is <I>still</I> popular!<BR/><BR/>The so-called "progressives" of the Left coast and Northeast differ from the "conservatives" only in that they are progressively totalitarian instead of conservatively totalitarian.<BR/><BR/>Y-a-w-n!<BR/><BR/>BTW, Will, you better not get too dependent upon the ACLU as your primal source of these kinds of hideous documents and memos because I seriously doubt they'll be as tireless in their efforts to dig up such within the LQ's Regime. You'll have to find another source for those during the Lizard Queen's reign.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I have no doubt <I>you</I> knew that, but I doubt many who lurk here do, hence the mention ;).dixiedoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09845646940134894119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-82875255430788022152008-04-05T12:23:00.000-06:002008-04-05T12:23:00.000-06:00whoops mix up Stanford with Bezerkley i thought Ca...whoops mix up Stanford with Bezerkley i thought Cali. was liberal hehe how this fascist enabler teaching there? bizarro world for sure sorry StanfordConcord Hymnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-19267501480241175922008-04-05T09:02:00.000-06:002008-04-05T09:02:00.000-06:00And it's not just in matters military or related t...And it's not just in matters military or related to the disgusting GWOT.<BR/><BR/>Most states have a 'lite' version that most people have accepted without question. In Idaho this was passed as the Idaho Administrative Procedures Act - which allows unelected bureaucrats to arbitrarily decide matters of their own misconduct. If you aren't aware of this, you should be for when you are faced with it, it is too late to fight it. And you can guess how well this works for complainants . . . the usual bureaucratic whitewash. <BR/><BR/>The system is corrupt from 'The Decider' to the dog catcher and it is self-reinforcing, not self-correcting. Only a nation cleansing revolution will change it. Molon labe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-16820248082566055262008-04-05T05:50:00.000-06:002008-04-05T05:50:00.000-06:00"A generous amnesty was provided for offenses comm..."A generous amnesty was provided for offenses committed `during the national revolutionary struggle of the German people, in preparation for this revolution, or in the struggle for the German homeland.'" -- *Hitler's Justice*<BR/><BR/>It's not even seven years, and people already accept the neo-Nazi term "Homeland Security" which popped up like a poison mushroom in the days after 9/11. Now, thanks to the ACLU's exposure of the Yoo memos, we know that in those same days, the DOJ advised that the Fourth Amendment is inapplicable to domestic military operations, such as NSA telecoms spying. The hastily passed Patriot Act, since reauthorized, statutorily repeals the warrants demanded by Amendment IV, with its "national security letters."<BR/><BR/>Martial law is defined as suspension of the constitution, under military rule. Just as declarations of war have fallen into disuse, so have declarations of martial law. The Nike slogan applies: "Just do it."<BR/><BR/>Is it mere semantics to say that we're living under martial law? No. As our overlords know, the framing of an issue with words controls how we think about it.<BR/><BR/>Knowing that martial law prevails would make explicit the utter futility of voting for Democrats to punish Republicans, or vice versa, since both parties have enthusiastically rubber-stamped the validity of cryptic military rule. That realization alone would save millions of wasted hours and wasted dollars on the part of well-meaning citizens who know that something is desperately wrong, but can't understand why trying the same prescribed remedy over and over fails to fix it.<BR/><BR/>A solution, if any, will be found outside the administered sandbox of "working within the system." The system, if you haven't noticed, is rigged and locked down. And most of the key memos are still secret.<BR/><BR/>Oh well, I can still dream: Ron Paul for president; William Grigg for attorney general. But only after secession from the Beast. Cascadia, here I come!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-31551429581735794662008-04-05T00:46:00.000-06:002008-04-05T00:46:00.000-06:00A bomb dropped from a B-17 on Februrary 3, 1945 sc...A bomb dropped from a B-17 on Februrary 3, 1945 scored a direct hit on judge Roland Frieslers nazi kangaroo court, the dreaded hanging judge was killed in the blast. Now 60 some odd years later we see the velvet glove/iron fist of fascism in our own land. And how in the world does J.Woo still have a job teaching at Stanford(?) i believe.Concord Hymnnoreply@blogger.com